Cri de coeur

[avevale_intelligencer]

So two of my friends, as case-hardened fan critics (if I may say so) as you could wish to meet, are in floods of happy tears over last night's episode and I'm thinking...

...I'm thinking the same thing I thought when I saw "Rose" and read comments saying how wonderful it was that Doctor Who was finally back. I'm thinking what's wrong with me?

Because it's got to be me, hasn't it? It must have been me all the time.

Don't you think I want to be enraptured? Do you honestly think my pride, or some twisted sense of superiority at being the only one marching in step, is more important to me than the magical feeling I still get watching old Troughton and Pertwee and Baker episodes I nearly know by heart? I'm asking because I don't know the answer myself any more. I don't know why, when everyone else is looking at this and seeing their childhood favourite triumphantly returned, all I see is...nuWho. The mixture as before. New boss same as the old boss.

I'm like the lame kid at the end of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." It doesn't matter how often I tell myself that I'm the lucky one, I get to live in the real world. All I know is that all those other kids were going somewhere really wonderful, and I got left out.

And if I was right the first time, and this new series is really that much better, and the only reason I can't see it is because the first incarnation of nuWho broke my connection and I can't get it back...then it'll be a cold day in hell before I forgive Russell T Davies for doing that to me.

Comments

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

I have never liked it either. I'm not forced to watch it week after week because I liked the old series (I've seen like 3 episodes of Old Doctor Who with the blond Doctor but I'm not much drawn toward *any* "old" TV, I don't like StarTrek TOS, either [*waits for hired assassins to kill her for this comment*]) but mainly because all of you Britons have always made such a fuss about it: I kinda desperately have been trying to "get it" why everyone is so much interested in badly made children's TV. >:oD

I've just (one more time) given up, I won't download it anymore. Come on, it's shite. Why even getting upset about it.

I know, if they were making a new series calling it Star Trek and it was bad I'd be upset too. Oh, wait, they did and I was. >:oD

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

Ok, I just had a memory flash about how I felt about the last season of Buffy, most of Angel and the last season of DS9, how they betrayed my aching fan soul. Enterprise and Dollhouse didn't even hurt so much anymore after that, the damage had been done before...

Argh. But 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Sending hired assassins as requested! (OK, I could only afford a teenage ninja-wannbe squirrel who is too young to be allowed weapons and will probably be too scared to come near you, but it's the thought that counts...)

Wouldn't it be really boring if we all liked the same things?

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

So true...

Yes, squirrel!!! :o)))